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Bumps electron from 40.6.1 to 40.8.3.

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electron v40.8.3

Release Notes for v40.8.3

Fixes

  • Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #50287 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed an issue where some DevTools functionality didn't work as expected. #50275 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed user resizing of transparent windows on win32 platform. #50301 (Also in 39, 41, 42)

electron v40.8.2

Release Notes for v40.8.2

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for b/491421267. #50229
  • Fixed an issue where running app icons were not correctly retrieved on macOS Tahoe. #50188

electron v40.8.1

Release Notes for v40.8.1

Fixes

  • Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #50158 (Also in 38, 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where calling autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() could fail if checkForUpdates() was called again after an update was already downloaded. #50216 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where Chrome Devtools menus may not appear in certain embedded windows. #50138 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where additionalData passed to app.requestSingleInstanceLock on Windows could be truncated or fail to deserialize in the primary instance's second-instance event. #50162 (Also in 38, 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where screen.getCursorScreenPoint() crashed on Wayland when it was called before a BrowserWindow had been created. #50104 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where calling setBounds on a WebContentsView could trigger redundant page-favicon-updated events even when the favicon had not changed. #50084 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #50131 (Also in 38, 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #50149 (Also in 38, 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where traffic light buttons would flash at position (0,0) when restoring a window with a custom trafficLightPosition from minimization on macOS. #50207 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed bug where opening a message box immediately upon closing a child window may cause the parent window to freeze on Windows. #50189 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Reverted AltGr key fix that caused menu bar to no longer show on Windows. #50110 (Also in 39, 41)

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for chromium:485622239. #50168

electron v40.8.0

Release Notes for v40.8.0

Features

  • Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #50030 (Also in 41)

Fixes

  • Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #50053 (Also in 39, 41)

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.236. #50060

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Commits
  • e094b39 fix: user resizable transparent windows on win32 (#50301)
  • 339d44c fix: add ASAR support to additional copy methods (#50287)
  • ee2d3db test: fix esm issue in node-spec-runner (#50294)
  • 139e238 build: remove redundant bits of ncrypto node patch (#50280)
  • a1550f5 fix: prefer browser runtime over node in DevTools HostRuntime detection (#50275)
  • 3dd04c2 ci: update actions/cache to 5.0.3 (#50236)
  • d32b8a6 chore: cherry-pick 7911bee5d90e from skia (#50229)
  • 425fe98 chore: cherry-pick d5b0cb2acffe from v8 (#50231)
  • 6b4b7df chore: backport running mac app icons from chromium (crrev.com/c/7239386) (#5...
  • cc81658 ci: add timeout to test step (#50211)
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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 40.6.1 to 40.8.3.
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- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 40.8.3
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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  1 files  ±0    1 suites  ±0   1m 12s ⏱️ +3s
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